Derek Martin

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Just fucking use HTML Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

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The other day someone tried to explain to me what PLUR meant. I was like: “Pleeeease. I was part of the rave scene before you were born. Peace, Love, Unity, Respect.” Do you even know there was a similar scene 100 years prior? Bohemianism: Truth, Beauty, Freedom, & Love.” I’ve been to Café du Dôme.

TIL: Angelina Jolie has a full older brother (same mother and father) named James Haven. pagesix.com/wp-content/u...

@nerdy.dev You’re worth more than that.

When it happened to me, I took it as the universe telling me “You need more than 1 income stream, and you need to be in control so nobody can ever take away all your income ever again.”

I’m still working on making that happen. Best of luck to you!

@nerdy.dev Sorry about your ex-googler situation. It’s shocking Every. Single. Time. that happens. They didn’t care about me? I cared about my work! How could they do this! Why let me go? There’s no human logic to it. We would like to recoup $x. This person makes $x. Fire that person.

Trump increases China tariffs to 125%, says “the days of ripping off the U.S.A. are no longer sustainable or acceptable”. — Does he not realize that everyone in China makes less money than anyone in America? What happens if they just increase their prices to support paying US wages? Jeeze, Trump.

This man lost his life savings to identity fraud. He doesn't know how it happened | CBC News According to data from the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, identity fraud had the highest number of reports among all types of fraud in 2024 with 9,487 victims across the country.

I’m not sure what’s worse: that this Halifax man had his life savings stolen; that at 66 someone’s life savings is $28,000; or that his partner makes less than $28,000 a year while working full-time. Canada ain’t what it used to be, but at least his bank reimbursed him! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@bsky.app Can you please make it so that Command-Plus opens a new post window in your client for macOS? (so it works like every other macOS app)

Why did the UK want its effort to get through Apple’s encryption to be kept secret?

Because it didn’t want its own citizens to know it’s spying on them, and trying to get access to their encrypted data.

Simple.
Evil, but simple.

Some believe consciousness results from chemical reactions in the body/brain.

Others believe it results from something less explicable.

Would the first group believe AI can become conscious via computation, and the second group believe that AI cannot become conscious without a magic spark?

Ahh, yes, it is about fair tariffs, because the leverage tariffs provide is all about fairness. They’re not a tactical wedge at all. Like, the ones Trump levied on the USA’s allies for no damned reason are totally fair. Nobody makes fairer tariffs than Trump.

I’ll be hosting a live Disclosure Q&A on Sunday night at 10pm Eastern. You’re welcome to attend. www.facebook.com/share/15pN7q... #ufo #uap #disclosure

Listen to everyone, then trust your gut.

Public Service Announcement
Before Monday January 20th 2025, there will be a massive release of information about the reality UFO/UAPs and ETs. Dr Steven Greer (and over 100 witnesses) at forefront, supplemented by additional releases from Ross Coulthart, & Jeremy Corbell #ufo #uap #disclosure

The LA Fires demonstrate an increasing need for decentralization of water, and an increase in off-grid utilities in general. If those multi-million dollar homes had elevated water reservoirs (and their pools) connected to their sprinkler systems, kept power & HEPA on, and saved themselves.

Damnit. Another hero becomes a zero (At least on a personal level. His writing is still stellar).

So Honda and Nissan are merging? I sure hope they lean more toward Honda’s design & engineering than toward Nissan’s. In my experience, Hondas are sleek, peppy, and reliable. Nissans are meh, meh, and meh. Huge potential for a serious internal culture clash.

I maintain that Cage has been having more fun and doing better work for the last 5-10 years than in the rest of his career, despite or because of the lower budgets and expectations.

LOL. Fair point.

Can we add Canadians without Fuck T*udeau tees to that list? 😬

Hugh Grant got Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Heretic, and Demi Moore got Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for The Substance.

The Golden Globes don’t have a horror category, so things are effed-up. If anyone watches these expecting a Musical or Comedy, they’re in for a big shock!

Like a Sasquatch

We watched the 1989 Batman movie with our kids tonight. Somewhere near the beginning, Claire quoted The Goonies “Heyyy youuuu guyyyysssss!”, and as the credits began to roll Abby jumped up and was zooming around the room saying “I’m Batman! I’m Batman!”
I think we’re doing alright 😃

YouTube video by Whitley Strieber Visitors, Drones, and Secrets: Are We Being Warned?

Looks like Whitley Strieber has the best explanation of the drone activity that I’ve heard yet, and after having read many of his books, I trust him.
youtu.be/B3Hc7hNImFg

TikTok ban: Apple must remove it from the App Store next month - 9to5Mac As TikTok’s ban in the United States swiftly approaches, lawmakers on Friday reminded Apple that they are on the hook...

Americans have free speech, as long as foreign adversaries don’t pay attention to what they’re saying. Glad we’ll still have TikTok in Canada.
9to5mac.com/2024/12/13/t...

Apple uses variations of this chip/feature progression:

Thing > Plus > Pro > Max > Ultra

There are rumours that Extreme might be added after Ultra.

IMHO, Max means Maximum, so the progression should be:

Thing > Plus > Pro > Ultra > Extreme > Max

FAST = free, ad-supported TV
but really
FAST = free and shitty TV

Including the geological/archaeological record? (Meaning one that goes back more than just ~200 years)

Threads is entirely engagement bait. I think I’m gonna be Blue from now on.